Stories from Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Feb. 23, 1947 - Feb. 13, 2009 BEAVER CITY -- Bill Grilli, 61, died Friday (Feb. 13, 2009) at his home in Beaver City. He was born Feb. 23, 1947, at Louisville, Colo., to Luigi and Mary (Anselma) Grilli. He grew up in Louisville and attended Louisville Schools. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War from July 26, 1966 until July 25, 1968...

May 25, 1938 - Feb. 13, 2009 SELDEN -- Joan Ann Wessel, 70, died Friday (Feb. 13, 2009) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born May 25, 1938, in Coffeyville, Kan., to Wilbur and Floy (McKinney) Ryan. She grew up in Caney, Kan., and attended Caney Public Schools and Coffeyville Junior College. She graduated from the Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Education degree...

Jan. 12, 1921 - Feb. 14, 2009 CAMBRIDGE -- Pauline Phillips, 88, died Saturday (Feb. 14, 2009) at her home in Cambridge. She was born near Bartley on Jan. 12, 1921, to Otis E. and Irene (Mayo) Teter. She graduated from Bartley High School in 1938. After high school she taught country school for several years. She was a polio survivor. She contracted polio at the age of nine and wore braces for more than 17 years...

Feb. 10, 1923 - Feb. 13, 2009 George Allen Randel, 86, died Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, at Community Hospital in McCook. He was born in Red Willow County on Feb. 10, 1923. He graduated from McCook High School in 1940. Randel enlisted in the Navy in World War II, and served throughout the Pacific Theatre, including being stationed in Japan...

Aug. 20, 1924 - Feb. 16, 2009 Wanda Melvene Seals died Monday, Feb. 16, 2009, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was 84 years old. On Aug. 20, 1924, she was born in McCook to Charles H. and Bernice (McManigal) Mitchell. She attended McCook schools and lived in the community all her life...

WRAY -- Tim L. Steinbeck, 34, died Friday (Feb. 13, 2009) in Laird, Colo. Funeral services will be Wednesday, 10 a.m., at First Christian Church in Wray. Interment will be in the Haigler Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday from 6-8 p.m., at Spellman-Schmidt Funeral Home, 427 Adams St., in Wray...

The McCook Community College Indians will open the 2009 season today with a doubleheader against Dodge City Community College in Dodge City, Kan. The Indians go into 2009 with high hopes in coach Jon Olsen's second season at McCook as head baseball coach. He is assisted by Phil Macke...

The McCook High School junior varsity girls basketball team went 0-3 on the road at the East/West Shootout to finish out the season. The Bison JV girls lost to Scottsbluff 69-45 Saturday, 59-45 to Gering on Friday and 48-34 to Alliance Thursday. In ther Scottsbluff game, Emilyne Nichols led the Bison with 10 points. Adrian Lambing added 9, Laura Brooks 7, Gretchen Sehnert 6, Morgan Schaeffer 6, Becky Goodenberger 2, Megan Carfield 2, Bonnie Dominguez 2 and Rachel Bradley 1...

NORFOLK -- The McCook Community College men's basketball team handed Central Community College-Columbus a 78-68 loss Saturday and lost 91-86 to Northeast Community College-Norfolk on Sunday. The MCC men are 15-12 overall and 2-2 in the Region IX East Sub-Region...

The Dundy County-Stratton girls basketball team advanced to the semifinals of the Class C2-11 sub-districts. The Tigers (12-9) edged Southwest 57-56 Monday night and will play North Platte-St. Patrick's (11-8) tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the McCook High School gymnasium...

COLUMBUS -- The McCook High School Bison swimmers trekked up to Columbus for the GNAC meet. It was the last meet of the year for many of the Bison swimmers. "We had some really good performances, many of the swimmers had personal records in the meet," said head coach Lori Jumps...

Don't waste these opportunities to leave economic cares behind, at least temporarily.

Two big events on the news as I write. First, most important, is the running of the Daytona 500. The other is a breakdown in negotiations of the United Auto Workers Union and General Motors. How are the two entities related? Let's think about it...

LB 429 introduced by Sen. Christensen

The Jan. 8 decision by the McCook Board of Health that property at 1306 West 12th is a public nuisance was disputed by owners of the property Monday night. But after lengthy discussion during the public hearing at the regular McCook City Council meeting, the council upheld the Health Board's decision and denied the appeal by owners Bernard and Kathryn Weaver of Garfield, Kansas...

Bonding for Keystone may be less than expected